Traveling Time

The Text:

The Hebrews spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?  For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food."
                                                                                               Numbers 21:5

                                               

                                                              The Hebrew Wilderness                         by Liz Meade c. 2011

The Whispering:

We can be so fickle sometimes. In this passage, the Hebrews complain about the conditions during their wilderness wanderings. They had been enslaved by Pharoah for generations, cruelly oppressed, but God heard their cries and freed them. Yahweh promised them a land flowing with milk and honey; promised them freedom, hope and new life. God was escorting them to the Promised Land.

Desert time is time deliberately carved out for us to realize and to remember our utter dependence on God. In desert times we come to reclaim our identities as children of the Living God. In their desert times, however, the Hebrews murmured, complained, and even worshiped a golden calf. "We detest this miserable food."
And yet, through it all, God accompanied them.

The Church of the Holy Nativity now finds itself in its wilderness time,, and through it all, God will accompany us. It is not a maintenance time; it is a traveling time. Let us walk with courage as we faithfully seek God in the wilderness, and discover what God has in store for us in this fragile mystery that is Interim Time. God will be with us through the opacity of it all.